精美英美文学展示马克吐温《卡拉维拉县驰名的跳蛙》概要1.ppt

What realistic elements can you find in this story?
----The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Cavalveras Country
Realistic Elements
of detail derived from observation
reliance on the representative in plot ,setting and character
objective rather than an idealized view of human nature and experience
Reality
Concreteness
of detail derived from observation
Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair, and then sat down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph.
Thish-yer Smiley had a mare--the boys called her the fifteen-minute nag, but that was only in fun, you know, because, of course, she was faster than that--and he used to win money on that horse, for all she was so slow and always had the asthma, or the distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind.
But as soon as money was up on him he was a different dog; his under-jaw'd begin to stick out like the fo'-castle of a steamboat, and his teeth would uncover and shine like the furnaces.
Native language and slang in the plots
fellow ---- feller
yellow ---- yaller
catching ---- ketching
sitting ---- setting
just ---- jest
get ---- git
Official language
I added that if Mr. Wheeler could tell me anything about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many obligations to him .
Characters
Plot
reliance on the representative in plot ,setting and character

An upper class gentleman from eastern region
“ I added that if Mr. Wheeler could tell me anything about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many obligations to him. ”
“I let him go on in his own way, and never interrupted him once.”
reliance on the representative in plot ,setting and character
Characters
2. Simon Wheeler
I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the dilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp of Angel's, and I noticed that he was f